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Mar 25 2022
News
Russia signals scaled-back war aims as Ukrainians advance near Kyiv
Moscow signaled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive, recapturing territory on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv.
In the first big sign that Western sanctions on Russia were impacting investment from China, sources told Reuters state-run Sinopec Group, Asia's biggest
ReutersApr 13 2021
Analysis
Zoom Court Is Changing How Justice Is Served
In july, Michelle Rick, then a circuit-court judge in two Michigan counties, tweeted cheerily about a divorce she’d recently finalized. The participants had appeared in court via their smartphones. “He was on the road & parked his car to attend; she video-tx’d from her work breakroom,” the judge wrote. They were done in 15 minutes—faster than the proverbial Reno divorce.
Last spring
The AtlanticMay 10 2017
News
Terry McLaughlin: Living Room Conversations offer respectful discourse
With the explicit goal of improving the level of social discourse over public policy issues, Joan Blades of Berkeley, a political activist and former divorce mediator, devised the idea of intimate small group discussions which, in 2011, evolved into "Living Room Conversations."
The UnionSep 13 2021
Opinion
Stop Biden's $3.5 trillion boondoggle – Manchin shows moderate Dems how to survive midterms
If Kyrsten Sinema was the first Democrat to breach the gates of the Biden administration’s domestic agenda, Joe Manchin kicked the door wide open and showed others the way.
Just before a weary nation paused for the holiday weekend, the West Virginia Democrat took a hatchet to the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package, which has become the crown jewel on the left’s legislative wish
Kevin McLaughlinFeb 09 2022
Opinion
Eileen Gu, an American-Born Skier Who Sold Out to China, Wins Gold for Xi Jinping
Eileen Gu, 18, was crowned the winner in the Olympics’ first-ever Big Air Freeski event after landing a double cork 1620 on Monday. In the daring event, skiers perform tricks in the air after shooting down a 60-foot-long ramp.
Gu, who is estimated by the Beijing News to have earned $15 million in 2021, is currently the third-highest-paid female athlete in the world, trailing
The American SpectatorJun 29 2016
News
John Kerry: Brexit could be 'walked back'
The US secretary of state has raised doubts about whether Brexit will ever happen, suggesting most leave campaigners do not truly believe in Britain’s divorce from the EU and do not know how to achieve it.
The GuardianAug 30 2021
News
Right-Wing Radio’s ‘Mr. Anti-Vax’ Marc Bernier Dies Of Coronavirus
A conservative radio host in Florida who was openly opposed to the coronavirus vaccine has died of the COVID-19 infection after a three-week battle with the disease.
Marc Bernier’s final tweet, sent July 30, compared the vaccination and virus mitigation efforts to Nazi Germany.
Radio station WNDB ― News Daytona Beach ― confirmed the news on Twitter on Saturday.
He was 65
HuffPostMar 17 2018
Opinion
Mueller’s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable.
National Review (News)Jan 21 2014
News
Mythbusters
In their annual Gates Foundation letter released Tuesday morning, Bill and Melinda Gates identify three persistent myths about global development that drive them crazy: that poor countries are doomed to stay poor, that foreign aid is a big waste, and that saving lives leads to overpopulation.
PoliticoNov 29 2014
News
Obama's Uneasy Relationship With The Pentagon
On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official.
"I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery. "I told the
HuffPost